Comments on: Tabbed-browsing enhancements for Firefox in latest build

By: Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time | Firefox.hk

Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time | Firefox.hk — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:55:30 +0000

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By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:31:53 +0000

WOW! Thanks, I love tabbed browsing (how did I ever get by with IE?) but they can be annoying for the reasons you mentioned. I am going to try this. Thanks, great blog!

By: Jeremiah Zabal

Jeremiah Zabal — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:20:47 +0000

Yeah, i’m a middle-clicker too. And after playing with Flock a little, i find that close buttons on each tab not only waste space, but also get in the way, causing accidental closures when trying to select or drag tabs. One of Flock’s solutions for reclaiming some tab real estate is hiding the icons on all but the selected tab, but i’m not crazy about either.

The tab snap-back feature sounds useful, though.

By: Rory Parle

Rory Parle — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:15:36 +0000

Default Firefox installs on Linux don’t close a tab on middle-click. Something about middle-click meaning ‘paste’ on Linux. You have to change a setting in about:config to change it to close tab. I can never remember what the setting is, but I can always find it by looking for settings with ‘paste’ or ‘middle’ in their names.

As for hiding the close tab buttons; even if there weren’t a setting for it in about:config you could do it with userChrome.css. I’ll disable them on my Linux and Windows installs, but they might be handy on the Powerbook, which has only one mouse button. Then again I tend to use the keyboard a lot on that machine because trackpads are so much harder to use than mice.